A pen that mends your clothes, a wardrobe that makes new clothes from your throw-aways, and a machine that turns plastic bottles into t-shirts.The Electrolux Design Lab recently announced their Top 35 semi-finalists for the 2014 edition of the competition for design and technology students. Alongside futuristic air purifiers and a variety of food storage systems are a handful of ideas centered...

The virtual cockpit display widens the pilot's field of vision.Imagine showing up at the airport to catch your flight, looking at your plane, and noticing that instead of windows, the cockpit is now a smooth cone of aluminum. It may seem like the worst case of quality control in history, but Airbus argues that this could be the airliner of the future. In a new US patent application, the EU airc...